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This paper examines Wayne Fischer's Journal of Hope, a series of stories which was aired on New York One News. Journal of Hope puts a human face on the issue of AIDS in the context of a news program. Unlike many contemporary sanitized and formulaic news formats, the journalist producing Journal of Hope, Debby Feyerick, took a personal look at one man's existence and his ultimate end. The series is an example of an approach to accountable television news coverage that constructs meaning as it is created. It is an illuminating account of life and death in the media, and demonstrates that constitutive communication can be utilized within news media to facilitate greater cultural and social understanding.
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Che Baysinger (Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.